Stone Floor Tile

December 16, 2014 in 3D, Environment, Textures

Finally had some time to make a stone floor. I created a base mesh in 3DS max using Stone Placement Tool script. Then I brought that mesh into ZBrush and started to sculpt away the hard edges. Then I decimated the mesh and brought it back into max for unwrapping. Various maps were then baked out using xNormal and then I composited them in Photoshop. Could use some more tweaking before I'll consider this done, but this render turned out pretty good so here's a preview.

2k textures rendered in 3DS Max. 3,292 tris and is double sided; as in top and bottom are unique for added modularity.

Sci-Fi Hallway almost done

October 11, 2014 in 3D, Textures, Props, Environment

This piece is really starting to take shape. Finally got all the pieces into Unreal and now I just need to finish up some of the texturing. I've got the door animating but having some trouble getting the blueprint to actually trigger the animations. Hopefully I can render out a video when all is said and done so we can see this bad boy in action.

Learned a ton about dDo this go around and reaffirmed my love of nDo for generating tertiary details on the normal maps. Was fighting with the Quixel Suite for a while, but I think I've got the workflow down now. Well, at least I've got a general idea of what to do. Might not be a perfect workflow, but that will come with more practice.

More Environment Pieces

September 11, 2014 in 3D, Environment

So here's what I've got so far. about 3-6 modular pieces, depending on how you look at it. I've got a wall set composed of a floor, a wall, and a ceiling. Then there's a doorway with a detachable ceiling piece. And finally an inside corner piece, which shares some texture space with the wall set and a unique floor piece. There's also a fancy collector type object on the ceiling.

Texturing work coming up in a few days. Got my AO maps all baked and did some extra maps so dDo would be happy. Probably going with a 2k map on the major wall piece, and then a 1k for the doorway. other pieces will have smaller scale maps.

At this stage, the poly count is as follows... 20,649 polys and 39,924 tris. Not sure if that's too high yet, so I'll leave it for now and adjust it if needed.

And finally, here's a quick peak at what's going on with dDo. Still need to fix lots of colors and add in a base metal texture, but there's some dirt and dust and grime happening.

Sci-Fi Environment Update

August 31, 2014 in 3D, Environment, games

Here's the progress on my Sci-Fi/Factory Corridor. No textures yet, but UVs are done. More modular pieces soon to come :)

Continuing Ed.

August 26, 2014 in 3D, ZBrush, Environment

So excited about the class I'm taking through UArtsy. It's an Environment Creation class with a focus on modular design and implementation into UE4 taught by David Lesperance. I even got access to David's other environment class! Here's what I'm made so far.